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Man is an imagining being.

Gaston Bachelard

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Addition Book Day Expression Life
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection

Man is an imagining being.

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